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Valley Views A Bi-Monthly Publication for the SWE Sacramento Valley Section In this issue BUSINESS MEETING February – March 2017 March 11, 2017, 12 – 1:30 PM Panera Bread, 3571 N Freeway Blvd, Sacramento, CA New Member Profiles . 2 Please join SWE SVS at their Business Meeting to Daniella Van der Spiegel. 2 discuss the Section’s business and a few upcoming events. Grace Cowell . 3 SWE Community News . 4 Y.E.S! EVENT PLANNING MEETING March 20, 2017, 12- 1 PM Emotional Intelligence Presentation . 4 Dial In: 1-877-603-8688; Conf ID: 7270526 SWE SVS Outreach Google Form . 4 For the 13th year, SWE is teaming up with the Girl Scouts to present Young Engineer Sessions (Y.E.S!) CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS – Y.E.S. – Young Engineer Sessions . 4 where Girl Scout Cadets (sixth to eighth graders) learn about STEM by participating in hands on workshop Scholarship Fundraiser . 5 lead by Sacramento Valley Section members. We're SWE SVS Educational Outreach Opportunities . 5 looking for volunteers. Date of event TBD. For more information, contact Heather Sheridan When Electric Cars are Powered by Coal Fired Plants What’s the Use? . 6 at sheridanhm@bv.com. FY 2016-17 Officer Roster . 7 PROFESSIONAL TO PROFESSIONAL MENTOR Business & Events Calendar . 8 Upcoming Events SAN JOSE - WE LOCAL February 24-26, 2017 San Jose Marriott San Jose, CA EVENT Date TBD, RSVP by March 10, 2017 Our Mentoring Program Coordinators are planning on a Professional to Professional mentoring event in late April. We will be pairing young engineers with more experienced engineers in a comfortable and open setting so anyone can ask questions and answer them. We know that as women in engineering, it can be more challenging to balance our personal lives and our careers. This event will be a great time to give and receive advice and give an opportunity to network. SWE members from in and around San Jose are excited to be bringing the excitement, energy and learning environment of SWE’s annual conference directly to our backyard. We look forward to bringing If you wish to be a mentor or mentee, please RSVP to together the best engineers and leading organizations the link below by Friday, March 10, 2017: for a series of days that connects collegiate and https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesUpYU professional attendees through educational DGAKworkshops, networking and professional mqM BUzgBY4TFlPfoX2ZkjoAq64s5Mc1PcVg/viewfor development. m For more information visit: http://welocal.swe.org/san-jose/ Society of Women Engineers Sacramento Valley Section We hope to see you there! Feb – March 2017 Page 1
SWE SVS Valley Views New Member Profiles DANIELLA VAN DER SPIEGEL optimizing production through data. She reported weekly on production data to the VP of manufacturing and thereby gained a high level overview of the factory and inventory. She could see where production wasn’t keeping up, and was able to standardize metrics and report success in different ways. For example, thousands of battery cells were assembled into battery packs but there wasn’t a standard reporting method on how many different car models with different demand that would cover. Daniella worked with teams to implement improvements on the floor, from stamping presses to seat suppliers that weren’t keeping up with production. As the industrial engineering lead, she went to the seat factory and found ways to increase capacity and quality standards. In September 2016, Daniella moved with her husband to Davis where he grew up. While she looks for new opportunities to get back into engineering, she’s working in the lab where she did her MS and plans to publish the thesis with the additional knowledge she gained at Tesla about decision-making on the floor. She’s looking at how to make the model easier to use and to incorporate at least one thing she learned: environmental and social factors can change the decision that the model recommends. Daniella learned about SWE just as she was leaving Tesla, where there’s a “Tesla Women in Engineering” group. She knows how much she gained from the exchange with other women engineers and role models, so now she wants to give back by mentoring others. In her spare time, Daniella enjoys reading, baking, and swimming. In fact, she competed in the Trans Tahoe open water swim, where teams of 4 swimmers swim across Lake Tahoe from northeast to west. The swimmers trade off, swimming 30 minutes each, then 20, then 10. In all, they spend five hours on the boat or in the water. Daniella Van der Spiegel received her BS in 2012 in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration and her MS in 2014 in Industrial Engineering from RWTH University in Aachen, Germany. She completed her master’s thesis at UC Davis in the Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies Laboratory building a decision model for sustainability strategies in manufacturing. She researched making production more efficient using the 3 pillars of sustainability: society, environment, and economy. Recognizing there needs to be a balance among these things and not any one can be perfect, Daniella looked at how a company’s sustainability goals can affect its decisionmaking throughout an entire organization. In conducting her research, she did extensive interviews with staff at Tesla Motors in Fremont, which ultimately lead to a job offer. In June 2014, she went to work for Tesla as an industrial engineer having a wide range of responsibilities, from data visualization, Welcome to SWE Sac Valley, Daniella! Industry 4.0 technology screening, and capacity and cost analysis to lean manufacturing. The mission as an industrial engineer was to make more cars with less money, so there was a focus on tracking and Society of Women Engineers Sacramento Valley Section Feb – March 2017 Page 2
SWE SVS Valley Views GRACE COWELL experience to get to that point. Grace joined the SWE student section at Cal Poly as a freshman, and as a sophomore, became the Academic Director. She maintained a test/quiz bank where members donated tests and quizzes from various classes. She organized them into binders that were made available to SWE members and then arranged study sessions around finals time. Grace also helped with the SWE Regional Conference which was held at Cal Poly in February 2015. She was in charge of recruiting professionals to give workshops and then coordinating with them to submit their powerpoint presentations. This was a good experience but very time consuming. In her spare time, Grace enjoys water color painting, playing piano and guitar, and biking. Welcome to SWE Sac Valley, Grace! Grace Cowell received her BS in Mechanical Engineering in June 2016 from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She took some time off and traveled to the East Coast for a week and then around Europe for 21/2 weeks. She hadn’t been to either place before and enjoyed exploring new territory. In September, Grace started working for Black & Veatch in Rancho Cordova as a mechanical engineer in the Hydropower Division. She does work for clients who own hydroelectric powerhouses, including PG&E, SMUD, Placer County Water Agency and SF Public Utilities District. Many of these powerhouses are very old, built between the 1920s and 1960s, and need to be refurbished and/or repaired. Grace’s job is to tell the clients how to repair the powerhouses based on experience and calculations, and then the client hires a contractor to design and implement the repairs. When construction starts, Black & Veatch oversees the contractor’s work in the field, and she looks forward to gaining enough Society of Women Engineers Sacramento Valley Section Feb – March 2017 Page 3
SWE SVS Valley Views SWE Community News EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE PRESENTATION helping with a variety of outreach opportunities throughout each year. Please check out our new tool at Outreach Volunteer Signup located at https://goo.gl/forms/a3cy23hXQciVkmsy1 and sign up for your areas of interest. We would love to hear your ideas for improvement on our new tool. If you have any questions or comments please contact the Outreach Coordinator, Lorraine Larsen-Hallock. We are starting to get more requests from various schools for speakers in the classroom and for SWE presence at career fairs. I recently had to send out a full membership email to ask for volunteers. I was very happy that members responded quickly and thus I was able to meet all of the urgent needs! Thank-you to those members who signed up to help!! I am hoping with your use of the online Outreach Volunteer Sign Up tool I will establish a list of volunteers that I can email as opportunities and On January 14th, long-time SWE SVS member, Carmen Lee, presented “Using Emotional Intelligence requests arise. SES still needs volunteers as indicated to Achieve More With Less” to a great turnout of SWE below. Please consider these opportunities to help our youth. members and friends in Rancho Cordova. There was also a potluck style brunch which included everything CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS – Y.E.S. – YOUNG from French toast, pastries, fruit, yogurt, and much ENGINEER SESSIONS more. For the 13th year, SWE is teaming up with the Girl Carmen helps professionals who are inundated with Scouts to present Young Engineer Sessions (Y.E.S!) multiple responsibilities boost their emotional where Girl Scout Cadets (sixth to eighth graders) learn intelligence and sharpen their mind so that they can about STEM by participating in hands-on workshops achieve their full potential. She coaches clients on lead by Sacramento Valley Section members. how to manage stress effectively, increase productivity, adopt a more positive attitude, improve This is our biggest outreach event of the year and is a communication, and manage conflicts. To learn more great success each year, thanks to the continued support of our Section members. Will you help to about Carmen, see make it a success again this year? s SWE SVS OUTREACH GOOGLE FORM SWE-SVS has developed a new tool for members to express their specific interest in educational outreach and to sign up for specific outreach email requests / notification. Thanks to Chelsea Gillis, an interactive Google Form has been placed on the SWE-SVS website so members can show their interest in Society of Women Engineers Sacramento Valley Section We have traditionally held four workshops each year, including physics of simple machines, computer programming, power/energy, design process, chemistry, structures and water resources. We are always looking for new ideas! Several workshops are well-established with instructions on how to run them. Feb – March 2017 Page 4
SWE SVS Valley Views If you are interested in leading or assisting with a Jacquie-Scinto@seshs.org; (530) 913-7756 (cell); workshop, being a team leader or donating goodies to (916) 433-2960 (SES). the event, please contact Heather Sheridan 2. Friday Speaker Series guest speakers are needed at sheridanhm@bv.com for more information for May 12 & 26 and June 2. Students gather in the career center to listen to the guest speaker SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER presentation regarding their career or particular Hi All! It's that time of year again for the section industry sector. There is generally one speaker for scholarship fundraiser! We have setup the dinner each date. The guest speaker talks consist of a 10for Thursday, May 4th, 2017 at 6pm. We have the following roles that need to be filled. Let Serena 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute at serena.carbajal@yahoo.com know if you are Q&A. Presentations may include PowerPoint, interested. video, and/or show & tell objects. Related industry Master of Ceremonies - you get the microphone! swag is acceptable and enjoyable for students. Auction Coordinator You can find the Friday Speaker Series dates on Raffle Coordinator the SES web site school calendar: Speaker- if you have an interesting topic that you https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src would like to educate us or know someone that seshs.org pvmq1e9dpe72p0bcckufhpl4kk@group.c does! alendar.google.com&ctz America/Los Angeles Donator/Donator Solicitor For inquiries or interest in being a guest speaker Photographer please contact Patrick Bohman at PatrickSign-in Coordinator Bohman@seshs.org; (916) 623-5620 (cell); (916) Application Reviewers/Rubric Developers 433-2960 ext. 1021 (office). SWE SVS EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH 3. Robotics Program Support. The SES robotics OPPORTUNITIES program is in desperate need of sponsors and/or donors for materials / supplies and funding to The Sacramento City Unified School District, School of Engineering and Science (SES) has identified the support each team. If you or your company would following specific needs which you or your company / like to help sponsor the robotics program please employer can assist with this school year. contact Patrick Bohman at Patrick1. Senior Project Mentors are needed for one on Bohman@seshs.org; (916) 623-5620 (cell); (916) one student mentoring and/or video 433-2960 ext. 1021 (office). conferencing. Dates: September through May on 4. SES Science Fair Judges: SES has scheduled the days and times determined by students and Middle School (7th and 8th grades) science fair for mentor. At least one initial in-person meeting with Wednesday, April 5th 2017. If you are interested in student is necessary prior to use of video signing up to be a judge, please go to this link: conferencing. Weekly schedules are generally https://goo.gl/forms/ukfGnERnDT75Ezo02 or posted at https://goo.gl/3C4c9L . For inquiries or contact Patrick Wong at pat.wong@arb.ca.gov ; interest in becoming a mentor please contact ph# (916) 323-1505. Patrick Wong at pat.wong@arb.ca.gov; ph# 5. Sacramento Regional Science and Engineering (916)323-1505 or contact Jacquie Scinto at Fair Judges & volunteers: Saturday, March 25, 2017. Please go to this link: Society of Women Engineers Sacramento Valley Section Feb – March 2017 Page 5
SWE SVS Valley Views -fair.html for more information and to sign up; or contact Patrick Wong at pat.wong@arb.ca.gov; ph# (916) 323-1505. 6. Job Shadow or Intern Opportunities: SES is interested in connecting high school students with industry related job shadowing and / or student intern opportunities. If your company / workplace is interested in hosting a student for this opportunity please contact the SWE-SVS Outreach Coordinator, Lorraine Larsen-Hallock below. 7. SES has a need for Senior Showcase judges on 3/29/17. Judges would need to be on campus by 10:00am for a quick "norming" session and familiarization with the rubric. Judging would start at 10:25. FYI: Projects will either follow the Scientific Method or the Engineering Design Process, rubrics reflect project method. To see the rubric and for signup please go to 2017 Showcase: Judging Sign-up: https://docs.google.com/a/seshs.org/docume nt/d/180M5 MxD8 8dsdFWbWpQFAeCwzgw 6igeJFgDdCSz3xk/edit?usp drive web 8. For questions & if unable to signup via link contact Jacquie Scinto at Jacquie-Scinto@seshs.org; (530) 913-7756 (cell); (916) 433-2960 (SES). For information about the School of Engineering and Science go to http://www.schoolofengineeringandsciences.org/. If you have any questions you may also contact Lorraine Larsen-Hallock, SWE-SVS outreach coordinator and member liaison to SES, at l.larsenhallock@sbcglobal.net or (530) 677-1973. Please inform Lorraine if you sign up for any outreach activities so she can track SWE-SVS participation. Thank you for supporting the young women & men who will follow your footsteps into the engineering field! Society of Women Engineers Sacramento Valley Section WHEN ELECTRIC CARS ARE POWERED BY COAL FIRED PLANTS WHAT’S THE USE? Summary by Amy Terrell (from “Electric Vehicles: Just How Green Are They?” in Catalyst, Winter 2016, Union of Concerned Scientists) Electric cars emit no hydrocarbon tailpipe emissions. But, there is a carbon cost in the manufacturing of the car, and, they need to be recharged with electricity derived from some fuel source. If the car is recharged with power derived from solar or wind power, of course the carbon footprint of the electric car is minimal. But what if the car is recharged with electricity from a coal burning power plant? The Union of Concerned Scientists looked at the life cycle carbon footprint (manufacture, use, and disposal) of cars similar to the mid-sized Nissan Leaf and the full-size Tesla Model S. The calculations included the carbon footprint from various power sources available throughout the U.S., based on EPA power plant data. Even when the carbon cost of manufacture and recharging with electricity obtained from coal fired power plants are included, electric vehicles have a carbon footprint equivalent to a car getting about 35 mpg. This value improves dramatically when the electric car is recharged in a state that has significant sources of solar, wind, and hydro power in its energy portfolio. Then, the carbon cost of the electric car drops to an equivalent car getting between 51 and 94 mpg, depending on the ratio of renewable power in the supply mix. This is a smaller carbon footprint than many hybrid cars. About 2/3 of the US population live in states with a significant clean energy component in their energy mix. As shown in the figure, the carbon footprint of an electric car in terms of miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent of an electric vehicle varies based on the renewable makeup of the local power mix. This figure shows 2012 power plant data, the most recent available. Today, due to increased renewables in electric power portfolios the mpg equivalent of Feb – March 2017 Page 6
SWE SVS Valley Views electric vehicles is even higher than those shown in the figure. FY 2016-17 Officer Roster In terms of the carbon cost to manufacture an electric car, the lithium batteries have the greatest carbon cost. The carbon footprint of battery production is much greater than that of a standard gasoline car. Nonetheless, the Union of Concerned Scientists found that the carbon cost of producing the batteries was completely offset by the zero tailpipe emissions within 19,000 miles of driving the full-sized Tesla, and sooner with the mid-sized Leaf. President Under the worst conditions, in states that are still using a high percentage of coal in their power portfolios, the all-electric cars are lower in their carbon footprint than fuel-efficient new gasoline powered cars. In states in which the power is derived from cleaner sources of power, electric cars have a smaller carbon footprint than the hybrid cars. Furthermore, since the renewable energy portion is increasing in all states’ energy portfolios, due to the 2016 EPA Clean Power Plan, electric cars will continue to provide a smaller and smaller carbon footprint as more renewable energy sources are included in the power mix. Therefore, all-electric cars are a good choice for minimizing the carbon footprint of the automobile. The MPG value listed for each region is the combined city/highway fuel economy rating of a gasoline vehicle that would have global warming emissions equivalent to driving an electric vehicle. Regional global warming emissions ratings are based on 2012 power plant data in the EPA’s eGRID 2015 database (the most recent version). The 68 MPG US average is a sales-weighted average based on where EVs were sold in 2014. Society of Women Engineers Sacramento Valley Section Chelsea Gillis gillis.chelsea@gmail.com Vice President Alexis Brown Alexis.Brown@irco.com Treasurer Natalie Muradian nmuradian08@hotmail.com Section Rep Paula McDonald (916) 832-0019 paulalmcdonald@sbcglobal.net CSUS Counselor Lynne Koropp lynne@csus.edu UCD Counselor Linda N. Finley (916) 557-7411 Linda.N.finley@usace.army.mil Scholarship Selection Coordinator Yarima Poveda yaricpeco1994@gmail.com Scholarship Event Coordinator Serena Carbajal serena.carbajal@yahoo.com Outreach Coordinator Lorraine Larsen-Hallock l.larsen-hallock@sbcglobal.net Membership Coordinator Wendy Cohen (530) 908-7518 wcohen@dcn.org Newsletter Editor Christine Rice (530) 559-4506 swesvsnewsletter@gmail.com Web Site Administrator Amy Terrell terrella@mycci.net Y.E.S! Coordinator Heather Sheridan (209) 986-5656 sheridanhm@bv.com Event Coordinator Alexis Brown Alexis.Brown@irco.com Mentoring Program Coordinators Mitra Hooshangi & mitrah@quincyeng.com Courtney Thomas courtneyrosethomas@hotmail.com Feb – March 2017 Page 7
SWE SVS Valley Views Business & Events Calendar Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Dates of Meetings/Events are subject to change Date/ Time Event June 20, 2016 6:00 – 8:00 PM Annual Planning Meeting July 21, 2016 6:00 – 8:00 PM September 27, 2016 6:30 – 8:30 PM October 4, 2016 6:00 – 8:00 PM November 10, 2016 6:00 PM December 1, 2016 6:00 – 8:00 PM Social Hour Speed Mentoring Event with Sac State Social Hour EWB Fundraiser Holiday Meeting Location Michael Baker International 2729 Prospect Park Dr., Suite 220 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 House Kitchen and Bar 555 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, CA Sacramento State University Union 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819 Bella Bru Cafe 4680 Natomas Blvd, Ste 100, Sacramento, CA Blue Prynt Restaurant & Bar 815 11th Street, Sacramento, CA Café Ettore 2376 Fair Oaks Blvd, Sacramento, CA Michael Baker International 2729 Prospect Park Dr., Suite 220 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 San Jose Marriott San Jose, CA Panera Bread 3571 N Freeway Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95834 Coordinator Chelsea Gillis gillis.chelsea@gmail.com Christine Rice tc.rice@yahoo.com Chelsea Gillis gillis.chelsea@gmail.com Alexis Brown Alexis.Brown@irco.com Kayla Salazar salazar.kayla3@gmail.com Chelsea Gillis gillis.chelsea@gmail.com January 14, 2017 9 – 11 AM Using Emotional Intelligence to Achieve More With Less February 24-26, 2016 WE Local – San Jose March 11, 2017 12 – 1:30 PM Business Meeting March 15, 2017 Newsletter Articles DUE Send Week of April 1, 2017 Christine Rice swesvsnewsletter@gmail.com March 20, 2017 12 – 1 PM Y.E.S! Event Planning Meeting Dial In: 1-877-603-8688 Conf ID: 7270526 Heather Sheridan sheridanhm@bv.com TBD 8 AM – 3 PM Y.E.S! Event Girl Scouts Program Center 6601 Elvas Avenue, Sacramento Heather Sheridan sheridanhm@bv.com TBD Professional to Professional Mentor Event TBD Mitra Hooshangi & Courtney Thomas mitrah@quincyeng.com Society of Women Engineers Sacramento Valley Section Alexis Brown Alexis.Brown@irco.com http://welocal.swe.org/sanjose/ Chelsea Gillis gillis.chelsea@gmail.com Feb – March 2017 Page 8
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE PRESENTATION On January 14th, long-time SWE SVS member, Carmen Lee, presented "Using Emotional Intelligence to Achieve More With Less" to a great turnout of SWE members and friends in Rancho Cordova. There was also a potluck style brunch which included everything from French toast, pastries, fruit, yogurt, and much more.
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